Tuesday, September 2, 2008

If you are a blog writer who also has a Facebook account then you can use Twitter and TwitterFeed to get your most recent blog post into your Facebook status. Publishing your latest blog post into your Facebook status is the easiest way to notify your friends that they need to read your blog. In addition, TwitterFeed puts your blog's URL into your Facebook status so your friends can simply click to read. Obviously, the more friends you have on Facebook, the more reader visibility this will generate for your blogs.

Create a TwitterFeed account, connect it to your Twitter account, and add your blogs' RSS feeds: this tells TwitterFeed to update your Twitter status anytime a new blog post is written which in turn tells Twitter to update your Facebook status

Write a new blog post and check your updated Facebook status

TwitterFeed can monitor as many blogs as you like and is ideal for both recreational and professional bloggers.

Update 1/4/2010:FeedBurner can be used in step 4 in place of TwitterFeed. TwitterFeed has not been 100% reliable and not as fast I would like so I am trying FeedBurner. In FeedBurner, go to Publicize-->Socialize-->Add Twitter Account.